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THE MANCHESTER. GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11; .1923. VARIETY THEATRES. SETTLEMENT WORK IN --ANCOATS. Cellars of the ROYM From the CAFE There are many people who know good wines when they drink them, but, not having the history and the geography and the tvhole doctrine of witte-growing at their finger-tips, are unable to select the right wines with certainty from the average list.

To these the facilities now offered for buying direct from the cellars of the Caf6 Royal will prove particularly welcome. At every connoisseur knows. Here art a few of the Cafe So. 434 CHAMPAGNE. Veuve Clicquot, Dry England, iood No.

461 CHAMPAGNE. Heidsieck, Extra Dry, 1914 No. 438 CHAMPAGNE. Comte de Valicourt, Carte Blanche No. 547 SPARKLING FRENCH WINE.

Royal Sparkling Burgundy No. 787 BRANDY. Very Fine Grande Champagne, 187a. Bonded for the Cafe. Royal ia 18S6 No.

75S BRANDY. La Grande Marque, Graniie Champagne. 1865 No. 780 BRANDY. Fine Champagne, Cafe Royal Special No.

78s BRANDY. Fine Champagne, Cafe Royal Cigars No. 3 CAL1XTO LOPEZ, Nationals No. 6 EL REY DEL MUNDO, Excelentesr" No. 4 RAMON MONTET.

No. I So. FLOR EL MARO, Panola A fuller list of wines Inquiries are invited For the information of tbe public, and as a pledge of origin, Uir distinguishing label 'V affixed to every bottle that comes from lie Cafe Royal cellars. CAFE ROYAL, 68 REGENT REPAIRS. these cellars admit only wines oi.

approved breeding indeed, to be included in the Caft Royal list is to have passed the severest test in its own class that a wine can undergo. The public may therefore buy from the cellars of the Cafe; Royal with full confidence in the pedigree and quality oi the wines oow offered, most of which (except those recommended for laying down) may be tried in the Restaurant or Grill-rc-Ota. Royal Wines now offered Dozen bellies 63- 630- 331-333-300- botllts 366- 17- 69f- ptr 100 100 will be sent on request. from Wine Merchants. STREET.

LONDON. W.t FOOTWEAR and TRITE SILK HOSIERY Salford exnlained brieflv how last vear the fund had provided 10,000 breakfasts alone, and had given 500 Dairs of cIosb to noor ehUdien. TETANUS AFTER A GUNSHOT WOUND. AN ALDERLEY EDGE FATALITY. The Manchester City Coroner.

Mr. W. W. Sunidge, held an inquest yesterday on thb Lotas SALFOKD DEVELOPMENTS. STREETS, BRIDGES, AND WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

With the object of providing as much work as possible, the Improvements Committee of tile Salford Corporation some twelve months ago decided, with the approval of the Council and the authorities in London, to put in hand various schemes of road widening and the construction of two footbridges. While all the works are being carried out under contract, an arrangement has been made by which a large number of Saflfprd unemployed men have been absorbed for varying periods according to the nature of the job on which they were engaged. During the past year the widening of number of roads cost (including the acquisition of land) 9,430. Yesterday the Committee, of which Alderman Cottrill is chairman, made an inspection of several works at present in pro gress. One of the most important of the new works is the construction of a steel footbridge over the London Midland and Scottish Railway, connecting Hodge Lane with Eccles New Road.

This easy means of communication between two busy thoroughfares has been the subject of public agitation for about 40 years, but "a difficulty has. always been the acquisition of a strip of land on the site of the workhouse. This 'has now been surmounted, 'and good progress is (being made with the erection of the footbridge, which is estimated to cost (including tne purchase of land and a cottage in Hodge Lane) 2,248. The other footbridge will cross, the River Irwell near Gerald Road. It will be built of steel and will have a span of the estimated cost being 2,165.

It will take the inuce oi a woouen Bridge tnat was erected some 80 years ago. The trustees of the Fitzgerald estates have granted an easement in tha (Vtr. poration for the erection of the new bridge, and have permitted the use of the original abut ments witnout any monetary consideration. Part of Stott Lane, connecting Eccles New Road with Eccles Old Road, has already been widened and paved. Work on the remaining portion, at the Eccles New Road end, is now in nana ana is expectea to oe completed In July next year.

There will be a new girder bridge with a span of 53ft. over the London Midland and Scottish Railway and a bridge of smaller span aver the comnanv's lines which run to the docks. It is computed that the cost of this work will be 21,958. towards which the Unem- Jioyment orants Committee will make a contribution of 65 per cent towards the interest and sinking fund over a period of 15 years. The iuau.

is sanciionea ior years, in connection with the widening scheme the Corporation have had to purchase Summerfield at a cost of 2,225, subject to a yearly chief rent of 40; the house and land 546, Eccles New Road, have also been bought at a cost of 650, with a 10 chief. The necessary land adjoining these properties will be absorbed, the house in Eccles rtoau nas oeen resold tor 600; and, after allowing for the realisation of Summerfield, it is estimated that the gross cost of this scheme. which has occupied the attention of the Council at intervals since 1897, will be 24,233. Very shortly a start will be made with the widening of Lansrworthv Road, from Eccles Old Hoad to Bolton Road. This project has involved Uie purchase of Holly Bank in Jficcles Old Road, the price being 1,335 for 1,810 square yards tincluding the house), and the calculated cost of this work is 10,835.

A grant-in-aid has been applied for to the Ministry of Transport. Many smaller widening and improvement schemes are in contemplation, including the widening of a long stretch in Eccles Old Road. Alderman Cottrill stated yesterday that the Special Committee of the Corporation appointed to consider the question of the development of the lower end of Chapel Street (including the removal of the Flat Iron Market to another site) had a scheme under consideration, and their proposals would be presented to the Council shortly. THE EDWARD ISAACS CHAMBER CONCERTS. Quartet in Minor, Opus 95 Beethoven Quartet in Minor, Opus 12 Dehusfy.

Quartet in Jklalor. Opus 96 Dvorak A great deal is written about nationality in music, and when analysed by the sceptical it becomes a very intangible thing. Yet in listening last night to the Copenhagen Quartet, which, stood for one nationality, in quartets so strikingly diverse in the national sense as the minor Quartet of Beethoven, the Quartet of Debussy, and the so-called Nigger Quartet of Dvorak, oue could not but feel there must be something in nationality alter all, for while the Copenhagen players displayed a great deal of ability and enthusiasm, the three quartets did not stand out with the sharply contrasted characteristics expected. The works seemed rather to have been put into some crucible which had assimilated them to a common feeling by which they were all somewhat transformed. To begin with, we should say, they were all read by the light of a purely musical feeling, as opposed a poetic feeling, or what we may call the light of imparted or imputed ideas.

Debussy (shall we say?) was read rather as if it, might have no more in it than Beethoven; and Dvorak, again, was enthusiastic without the drastic elements which make Mm, either negro or-Bohemian as we like to think. The enthusiasm of the whole concert was hardly masterful, or anywhere of oveTwhejning strength, but it seemed strikingly assured of itself, and unhesitating in its expression. The quartet was, like mcst bodies or the kind, very much stronger in the execution of smooth melodies than in detached notes. It generally a mark of the finest string playing when detached notes have firmness and the duration to give strong and graphic outlines. The Copenhagen players were, in the melodic sense, a finely balanced body, and one might admire in turn the richness and warmth of each player.

It was especially a delight to hear the viola melodies of Mr. Gerhard Rafn given out with colour and free from the gloom in which the notes of this instrument are so often shrouded. In general execution the violin playing of the leader, Miss-Gunna Breuning, was 'admirably free, in a way that was only partially emulated by her colleagues. One felt only that this freedom was used rather in a general way, and did not always carry with it the strong and daring outlines of melody proper to execution of this freedom and independence. We thought the interpretation of the finest music the finest; by, which we mean that the Beethoven quartet was more finely true to the accepted classical style than either the Debussy quartet or the Dvorak quartet was to the special vein of departure from it.

The Beethoven quartet had not the full sublimity of strength, or the peculiar poignancy whicjh is the master's own. We were interested in the fastidiousness which the players showed in entering on the slow movements of all the quartets, though we thought the reverential delays a little overdone. There is no doubt that a fine judgment of the intervals of silence between successive movements is a notable sign of musical feeling and instinct. The slow movement of the Debussy quartet was a remarkable piece of expressive playing in what we thought even a too quiet mood. The scherzo wanted some thing more of sharpness in the pizzicato touch to give out its full measure of the grotesque.

In some way the Dvorak quartet suffered also from this over-civilisation. The enthusiasm of the players became, as the concert went on, as marked the audience; so one. may say that in the general judgment the concert proved most acceptable. 8. L.

Tne Sunday Concerts. Mr. Philip Sternberg writes from 118, Lloyd Street, Green-heys, Manchester: May appeal to music-levers in Manchester not to allow the Sunday League concerts to go under through, inadequate support That- this-. may happen" in the very near future was. stated-to be the case by the League Secretary at last Sunday's concert These concerts have- improved enormously in tone and in the programmes submitted since they were started, aiid it would be a thousand pities if- they were brought to an end.

PICTURE-HOUSES. The Fdiubist. Hero is a fine bag of the oldest jeyijjes movie land. A troublesome man-is-pursued for long distances by a policeman with a club. The fugitive poses as a waxwork figure outside a tailor's shop, he climbs telegraph poles, and falls into the river.

He takes the place of a pugilist in th Ting, and after some farcical rounds, during which stars dance round him, he knocks opponent, referee, and most of the audience on the head, one by one. In another piece the testy husband has to mind the children and get his own meals, while his wife enjoys hi3 plight from -under the blinds across the way. Cheated Hearts opens in one of those familiar halls of sterile wealth, with the principal characters caressing a litter of puppies. But the heroine gets entangled with the wrong brother, so that the characters, have to go to Morocco, and there are journeys on the camel's back, Kidnappings, and holdings to ransom before she can work back to the right brother. To see all the people arrive in Morocco makes as credible a picture as when in the older entertainments the principals and chorus used' to take ship for the South Sea Islands at the end of the first act, But these white-faced automata are like nothing on the1 stage or in life.

They are a compound of hysterical movements, with less caution and more frenzy than life. They are an' emphatic people note" how they go about a kiss, or "a fight, or a faint. Yet at Ihe end we kmrtv nothing intimate of Muriel and Barry and Tom. We have seen them dance and eat and embrace. But can they read and "There is scarcely a.

single jot of character revealed from them. They are pale ghosts, and it is because of their ineptitude that their makers' have to set them in' desert-and put revolvers in their- hands. Yet the plot, too. has to be measured by the foot-rule of emotions supposed to be desired by the audience, with the result that many of the plots would not lose in coherence or strength if the reel were run backwards. o.

OT The Amateur Vamp" ob "Class." Pretty Rowena, the 'hotel cloakroom girl, could not ever have been to the movies. Frankly, we were disappointed in Rowena. Granted that she was new to the game of attracting rich men, she had, after all, lived all her life in New York, and we were, therefore, surely entitled to expect of her some knowledge of the movies. Even though she'd never herself played "vamp" before, she ought by this time to know the rules backwards. Why, we ourselves, who would not dream of varying the monotpny of our humdrum lives by accepting invitations dine at luxurious hotels with exquisite strangers, would have been more on top of the situation than was Rowena.

No doubt about it, she was an amateur. All she knew of vamping could have been written in a sub-title. She positively believed that that very nice boy Bhe "met" was a taxi-cab driver! She saw how his evening clothes fitted him. She watched him handling waiters. She heard him talk.

Repeatedly she saw his polished, fascinating smile. And she still swallowed that yarn of his about being- in humble circumstances. We ask you, was there not a oeitain something lacking in Rowena! If it had not been for her heart, which was eighteen carat and in the right place, she might have missed a perfectly stupendous matrimonial catch. As it was. we were quite glad to seo her pulling through all right and being received so warmly by the aristocratic mother-in-law.

Indeed, her very slowness in the uptake turned to her advantage. For it gave her a reputation for being distinterested and willing to marry the taximan for himself. It was nice to find Rowena landing so happily on her feet. We loved to her astonishment at realising at last what, wo had all realised so long. I chauffeur costume was really his aviation kit," We ourselves had not guessed that, nor had we guessed the hero's name.

Bill'? Shame! Clarence? Better. Eustace! You're getting warm now. What was it anyway? Vincent Armour! "Oh as George Robey would say swish A. R. The Deajjsgate: "An Old Sweetheart Mine." An observer, after a course of American films and magazine stories, might well ask, Does the New York girl ever marry! She vamps the man from Granville (Conn.) and BlanesbuiK (Pa.) with unfailing regularity, but he just as unfailingly dodges her matrimonial lasso, and returns to his girl in his own home-town." This well-worn theme is woven through the fabric of "An Old Sweetheart," which- has, in consequence, the air of a familiar sofa cushion with a pattern that one has srown Tather tired of, but which is, nevertheless, a comfortable cushion.

There are, happily, a few things in the film to make one sit up. There is, for example, some good child-acting and a schoolroom that would make any English child envious of its delightful laxity and of the mischief of one of the boys, who, however, grows up into a bad man. There is, too, a moment of real pathos, when the Old Sweetheart," after Jack breaks his promise to have his birthday dinner at her house in order to spend the evening with the "vamp," returns slowly to the dining-room and blows out the candles on the birthday-cake. The title-role all through is convincingly played; but when will the "home-town" sweethearts learn that their Jacks will always return to them, and stop fretting? When, too, will an enterprising American producer screen a New York girl who does marry? jj. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, December 10. The Senate have authorised the confprm.nt. of the following degrees: Degree of Ph.D. B. Moore.

Degree of M.A. H. Buckley, G. Bullouffh. A.

Earnshtw, W. Judson, F. Mitchell. D. O.

Parker, Lucie I. Street, Constance E. Trelour Lilian Tnrimi, Ti -nrn r.i tt woods. Degree of M.Sc: Florence Ashworth, H. W.

Broadbent, J. P. Cockcroft, D. C. urpney, v.

n. uearaen, Aatnieen 31. Drew, T. Eden, D. W.

Glover, L. B. Gibbons, Harrison. H. Higgmson, J.

T. Howarth, D. j. a. ji.

iuks, n. u. a H. Long, G. E.

Martin, Elizabeth G. Mitchell, V. A. Morris. E.

Ivy Roberts, J. Salmon, H. Southern E. Smith, S. R.

Stubbs, H. Taylor (Bacup)' Doris M. Thomas. R. Timpe, G.

P. Tinker, W. H. Watson. C.

W. Wood. H. Wood. D.

W. neau. lJerree oi M.fec.Tecn.. Bennion, J. R.

N. Booth. H. Vf. Foishaw, R.

Forsyth, R. Hayes, C. E. Hazeldine, I. Hey, I D.

Lamb, O. Mathias, J. A. Moore, W. E.

Morton, H. E. Newall, E. L. Pearson, J.

Roylance. C. Tasker, T. A. WoTsdell.

OXFORD, Dectmbeh '10. The following elections have been made at Corpus Chrisii College: To scholarships in classics; Walter. H. Shewring, Bristol Grammar School (Chas. Oldham scholar): Henry A N.

Barlow. Marl borough College; Geoffrey G. Green, Rcssali School; "Alfred Kash, City of London school; and Jonn a. ju. Aiandge, Uppingham School.

To a scholarship 'in classics and history: John C. P. De Winton. Eton College. To a scholarship in modern history: John Murrie, Manchester Grammar School.

To scholarships in mathematics Thomas uoss, Kossair scnooi, ana -arinur J. ilorreii. aiancnesier uraromar occoqu CAMBRIDGE, December 10. Mr. S.

W. P. Stcen, B.A., who gained first-class matheuiatical honours in. 1921,:. has beea elected a Fellow of Christ's College: UOT0B ditSJSG.

BrooUndi Aggregate VzUe, won by Mr. H. Lo Tack (164jciBb for the Kccnd year ia laccettkm. ThroagSon he -lun UBd Wakefield CASTEOIi Mowr ou eninorctr. c.

C- we-fitld. Oat, CABTrJ CHEMISTEY AND PUBLIC IIFE. HOW IT MIGHT PLAY A BIGGER PAET. Addressing a meeting in Manchester last night of the Manchester section of the Institute of Chemistry on The Chemist's Relation to Publio Life," Mr. F.

E. Hamer (editor of "The Chemical Age said that, largely as the result of the publicity the profession of chemistry obtiiined during the war, a demand had arisen for a fuller place in national life and a professional Gimilar to that of law and medicine. Unlike the latter professions chemis try fell between two ideals; at present it was neither a close profession nor a close trade union, with the result that while lawyers and doctors flourished under protection, the nation still enjoyed the blessing of free trade in chemists. While the research which was indis pensable to progress must always remain unseen, it had latterly been felt by chemists that the services they rendered in so many ways to civilisation shouId.be made more widely known, and the obligation lay upon chemists themselves, as Professor F. E.

Wynne had put it, of explaining themselves to an unbelieving world. It was obvious that in this work a judicious use of the public press must be one of the principal instruments, and it was no rare nowadays to find contributions of high scientific and technological interest, but expressed- in language the non-technical, reader could under stand, appearing in our leading dailies. J.ne idea that the chemist could only express himself- in his own mysterious formulae was no longer true, for amomr the newer ceneration the power of literary expression was one of the mosc notable gifts, if tnese gifts, however, were to be effective they must no longer be confined to esoterio and official publications, but must be exercised, for the education of the public. through the press the publio read. Anotuer method was combined action on publio questions in which chemistry played a cart.

In a ere at commercial and manufactur ing community like Maqchesterwhere chemical interests were so closely mixeiTup with public utility services food, light, housing, gas, water, ana even Deer proDJems constantly arose on which the collective judgment of chemical experts might be of great value in -the instruction and guidance of public opinion. In the United States such, committees had been organised and were recognised by municipal autnonties witfi excellent results, xne representation of chemistry qua chemistry in Parliament he, considered -unsound, for Parliament represented citizenship as a whole, and could not be constituted on a molecular basis. The incidental advantage, however, of having eminent representatives of the chemical industrv in the House was great. Chemistry, and indeed tne nation, nan momentarily lost a great figure in Sir Alfred Mond, but compensation existed in the return to Parliament of Sir John Brunner, the re-election of a distinguished scientist like Dr. Clayton at Widnes, and the choice by Glasgow of Sir William Alexander is successor to Mr.

Bonar Law. A Parliamentary chemical group composed of such men might be a real help to Ministers, departments, and the House in general. MR. JOHN ANTHONY'S RECITAL. Mr.

John Anthony's finest singing at his recital in the Lesser Free Trade Hall last night happened towards the end of the programme. Here in Loewe's ballad. Edward it was plain that the urge of his nature is towards forthright melodramatic declamation. He has a naturally powerful bass-baritone voice of fine range, but it lacks light and shade, and one imagines it lacks this not because tone is in itself hard and unpliable but rather because Mr. of thinking out a song are uncompromisingly subjective.

He sang Wolfs Anacreon's Grave last night, and made one suspect that the subdued style he brought to the music" was something skilfully emulated, and not a style springing from a deeply felt emotion. His Binging has the naivete which melodrama insists oit; in Man may escape from rope and from "The Beggar's Opera," there was the same note of overstressed grimness which earlier on Mr. Anthony had given with considerable success to an air from Rigoletto." Neither Mr. Anthony's voice nor his deportment suggested the spirit of mock irony which informs M'acheath's ballad. It came, as it were, from his heart.

The air Quand'ero Paggio," from Verdi's opera "Falstaff," was given with admirable pace, but here again the darkness of vocal colour, left one unsympathetic. It is as Iago rather than as Falstaff that Mr. Anthony would move us in opera which, obviously, he was born to sing in. -He seemed to be a little handicapped last evening by a cold this, how ever, could hardly have assisted towards the Impression he gave the writer' of a restricted manner of expression. I Mr.

Anthony sang to piano accompaniments by Mr. Harry Neville Kiam, whose playing was not sufficiently graphic. In one or two solo pieces Mr. Kram ruined a refined tone -by nerveless Mr. Walter Hatton's 'cello tone in Boellman's loftily named and -worthless Variations Symphoniques had not, amongst its various qualities, the amount of saccharine, the music now and again purrs after.

N. C. TO-DAY'S WIRELESS PROGRAMMES. MANCHESTER (2 ZY-on 400 metres). 5 50 to 4 30: Afternoon Concert by Madame Ella Good-feilow (mezKxoprsno), Arthur Davles (tenor), Arthur G.

Yates (baea). Jack Bowden (dialect 0: Women's Hour. 5 25: Farmers' weather report. 5 30: Children's Hour. 6 30: 2 ZY Orchestra: Selection, Melodious Memoriei (Finck).

7 0: General news bulletin from London, fallowed by Manchester news giving local weather report. 7 15: Close down. 7 45: Evening Concert by the 2 ZY Orchestra: Overture, Zampa (Harold), Vatse Lyriane (Sibelius) mite. La Francaiie (Fonlds) selection, "I Tosca (Puccini) Mr. Klinton Shepherd (baritone), "Honour and Arms" (Judas Maccabssus) (Handel), "The Brightest Orchestra: Selection, "The Arcadians" (Honckton).

8 45: Percy Phlage will Persiflage; Orchestra: Selection, Sally (Kern) KUnton Shepherd (baritone), Come away. Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind" (Qnilter). 9 oO Second general news bulletin from London, followed by Manchester news givin local weather report. 9 40: Spanish talk by Mr. W.

F. Bletcher (examiner is Spanish to the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes). 10 0: Dance Mnsic by the Savoy Orphean Dance Band (simultaneously broadcast irom the Savoy Hotel, London). 11 0: Announcements. Announcer: Mr.

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BOLTON. LONDON (2 LO on 350 metre). 11 3012 30: Con- SFv: women a xiour: xMcoTatug the Dinner Table, by Mrs. Gordon Stables; "A Nursery Chat." by the House Physician of a London hospital. 530: Chit ares' Stories: "Aunt Priscillx on 'How to Organise.

Picnic John Hone FWi T7 i T-'v -r -s ik signal, and news; Mr. A. E. Bawtree, F.H.p!s., the well-known authority on the subject, will talk about "Bank- o3. 9 ou: xrzne eignai ana news.

J.X Close down. BIRMINGHAM (S IT-on 476 metres) 3 30-4 30: 7 5ews. 7 15: Joseph Farriagton of the B.S.O.C. (bass). 9 30; Sews; 945: Leigh Philips (solo violin).

10 0: The Savoy Orpheass. llTO: Close down. BOURNEMOUTH (8 BM on 388 zaeir)3 45-4 45; Coneert. 7 News. 710: 3.

vt a vr Locke and his Work' -8 0: A Night, oi Memories: chestra. 1930: News. -945: 1015: dose OOWOv CARDIFF (5 WA-on 435 30: Or-chestra. 7 0: News. Mr.

Richard Treseder, Chat on Gardening." 7 30: Literary Night, conducted, with a critical commentary, bv Mr 8 P. B. Mais: The Romantic Revival of TWfoh Poetry," 9 30: News. 10 0: The Savoy Orpbeaus-. 11 0- Close down.

NEWCASTLE (5 MO on 370 45: Concert. 6 Scholar's Half-honr: A abort talk on British Small aiammais, dv uas. nsut nm. 20: Mr E. Afchnnt (Soyiil Grammar School): Talk en.

"Grasse: Wheie the Perfume Grows." 7 35: Orchestra. 930: News. 945: Orchestra- 11 0: Close down. ABERDEEN (I BO on 495 metres! -3 SO 30: Tha Aberdeen Wirieas Quartette: 6 0: Weather forecast 1st. tanner, wewv.

at: -atgBt; Qrcnema. 9 30: News. 9 45: Orchestra. 10 35: Cloto'downi Hoax, of -Melody. 6-0: forecast for farmers, i z.

xrojessor I jrmsay iw BtT. I Invention' on Industry." 930: News, 9 45: Orchestra. 1030: CSoi. As absent friend wtU vOm "no nd-A $ft at ytotca The Paiace. The rising of tie curtain discovers the chorus laughing a forced laugh at' something antecedent to.

the play, since it is never explained by anything that follows. Such, laugh does not require much stilling. It Is shut off mechanically the. moment the heroine steps from the wings. She is the wholly charming Miss Cora Goffin.

Heroine and chorus sing something not altogether intelligible, with surprising verve and a lot of leg action. Enter tho hero (Mr. Vyvyan Pedlar). He advances up stage, raises a too-beautiful silk hat to the back of the pit, and observes, "Ha! good morning, girls," to which the girls, who might have been in Harpurhey for all the hero haB seen of them, reply to his back, "Hal good morning. Bobby," for that is the hero's inevitable Christian name.

"Then a couple of athletic comedians blow in no other -word will serve just in time to save the whole thing from becoming entirely an affair of exclamations. Some sort of story began to develop from that moment. That evident, because at one moment iwe saw Bobby in the arms of the heroine, and then in the arms of someone who was not the heroine: But' to what appointed goal Bobby was moving through these amatory rotations had not been resolved by the time we left. It was too manifest that, Bobby's fate would only be decided after the chorus had gone through, the prescribed metamorphoses of dress and millinery, and. that over, what happened to Bobby was of small account.

If these things make musical comedy then The Talk of the Town is musical comedy. The music was alight but agreeable, and Mr. Walter Thomas, one of the two comedians, spent himself prodigally in trying to give the piece that comic purpose which the author seemed, to have overlooked. H. B.

The Hippodbomb. The entertainment which Miss Lee White and Mr. Clay Smith, give is in a pronounced American idiom. Miss White Juno-like, impressive, and charming; Mr. Smith what Mr.

Babbitt might call a hundred per cent live wire. With, all his zest, however, lie only exists as foil to Miss White. She sins syncopated songs, and Mr. Smith is forgotten; he comes into prominence between the songs, but only to propound jests for Miss White to All this cut-and-thrust is done at a merry pace, but in slick American slang that an English audience finds a 'little baffling. Sot all the training we are getting on American film captions seems capable of letting us completely into the secret of American humour.

We did not get all the amusement out of Mis? White and Mr. Smith that we felt instinctively an American audience would. Miss May Henderson is not a great comedienne, but she is often boisterously amusing. Louis is a French clown who is a rather pale reflection of Grock. He is not without a grotesqueness of his awn, which only adds to one's regret that he should not have -struck out a more original line.

Grock is absolutely inimitable, and any attempt to follow him only prove Ins unapproachable genius. H. B. The Empire, Ardwick. This is a programme mostly of quiet names.

In Ardwick at least they have not the ring ot fame about them that, for instance, Mr. Jack Lane brings to the top of the bill this week, but they are none the less worthy. One could say shortly, in fact, that it is a good bill all through if that did not allow an occasional injustice one way or the other. For instance, Ivan Kotehinsky and company are very spirited in tho Troika dance, and Mile, du Boisson, one ot their number, is exceptionally snaky when she plays the beautiful Persian. But what are Gipsy Frolics except a showing off of tricks well learned? So, too, with Solange Landry and Julls.

Their dance with its first few steps promises one of those long, intricate rhythms that every dancer loves to see; they begin: it neatly, quietly, smoothly, when with no more introduction than a slap in the face they interrupt with acrobatics, and one has to start all over again. The Serially, troupe are at lcaet all of a piece, though one would say that their gymnastics are more rhythmical and pleasing than their still Boss and Jerome have their themes cut and dried in toe and heel, so to speak, while Bene and Renard draw theirs from the cheery banjo, so they are simple, straightforward people, just as is Olga Charna, whose- forte is soprano singing to much applause. But one couldn't quite say that of Janice Hart and Frank O'Brian in "Presented at Court." It is nonsense from start to finish except for one or twi unfortunately reasonable remarks at the beginning; nonsense done like this is very amusing, and the players deserve thanks for ending a good bill well. D. F.

B. SOCIETY OF MODERN PAINTERS. A little exhibition with this title which is now being shown at 33, Blackiriars Street, on the third floor, impresses one by the vitality of the work and by the variety in style between the works of various exhibitors. Each seems to have his own aim and trend of thought; each is striving to express some particular thought or feeling and using his own particular means and style for its expression. This being so, it is not strange that pictures shown range in style from the generally accepted forms of laudscape and yortrait painting to the most extreme types of pictorial art of which Cezanne and Gauguin are the chief exponents.

It is strikingly obvious from one or two of the works in this exhibition, notably the work of Miss H. Ritchie, how untrue is the term "modern," Searching for pattern and poetry in nature, we see them exemplified in some of the backgrounds of Pilippino Lippi's paintings, aud it was also characteristic of the work of Indian painters during the reign of the Moguls in India. Some of Miss Ritchie's pictures could almost be taken for Indian work were it not foe differences in local colour. Pattern is the poetry of nature; nature is teeming with pattern to the careful observer. As beautiful examples of poetio representa tions of nature the works of Miss Ritchie are deserving of praise.

JJo. 51, Borrowdale," is commended to the attention of the most Philistine of the old school. It is delightful in its truthful expression- of" nature, in its harmony of colours and its correct suggestion of scale. Each component part of the scene has been searched for pattern and treated in such a manner as to aid its expression of the essence of nature. No.

39, A Buxton Quarry," by Mr. William Grinmond, is another pleasing design with a strong poetic feeling. Warm. brown stone is the motive throughout the work, colour being carefully considered in order io harmonise with the central idea. Two small designs by Miss Frances Hodgkins are unusual in style for a British artist.

Ihe effect obtained is essentially Japanese, and the pictures are expressive and good in design. Miss Dorothy Saunders, Miss Margaret S. Xicholls, and Mr. Karl Hagedorn are other artists who show good work in which realism or impression is subordinated to design-. Mr.

Kail Hagedorn endeavours, with varying suc cess, to use as a motive for his patterns scenes from industrial areas that are, as a rule, little suggestive of beauty. Some very delightful watercolours in conventional style shown by Mr. Adolphe Valette are notable for their directness and their purity of colour. Sometimes the shapes indicating trees are somewhat casual and unstudied. Mr.

Horace Taylor contributes soma masterly work which exhibits to the full his control of colour. The suggestion of sunlight in No. 77, HamiH stead," and the portrayal of character and humour in So. 76, The Duet," are admirable. little statuary exhibited and also some delicately modelled leather panels by Hiss Gertrude Wright.

Altogether the work shows that the" members "of society lively, progressive, and broadminded enough to experiments which may hot be popular, but which give them scope for the expression of tkeir est. T.H.M. ITS TWO-SIDED VALUE. LOD. 'CRAWFORD APPEALS FOR MORE SUPPORT.

The 'Manchester University Settlement in Ancoats needs a larger income. Every speaker at yesterday's annual meeting agreed that there had probably never been so great an opportunity, of service as present-day conditions had created. Life in Ancoats is dreary and ugly enough at any time to make any centre of aooial and intellectual brightness a veritable oasis, but rhen unemployment is causing widespread deterioration an agency'' like the Settlement beer mes immensely more valuable from the human point of view. Sir Henry Miere expressed surprise, to find that people who were suffering most severely from -the industrial depression were among the most anxious to keep alive their educational and intellectual interests. Xhe Lord Mayor (Alderman W.

T. Jackson) called attention to the problem of adolescent welfare, which was becoming: more nd more acute as successive batches of children were discharged from the elementary schools without hope of occupation for many months to come; the 'new dangers' thus arising were emphasised by Miss B. B. Rogers (warden of the Settlement), Canon Peter Green, and Canon Shinwell. Mr.

T. B. Ackroyd, M.P., told the encouraging news that during the year a deficiency -on the, general account of 250 had been made good, but he added that at least 500 was needed to put the recreation-room in good repair. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (Chancellor of the University of Manchester) said it was unfortunate that the resources of the Settlement were so narrow at the very moment when the greatest effort was needed. The times indeed were difficult, and it was not eaey to raise any substantial increase in the regular income of the but that very fact should bring home to everybody that if the times were difficult for subscribers they were ten times 'more difficult for those on whose behalf the subscriptions were needed.

It should not be forgotten that university eeUIcmeiUs were not free from competition. There were lots of other brighter aud more attractive buildings, even in Ancoats, and the competition which these set un was not necessarily of a wholesome character. That was a cogent reason why the public of Manchester should be called upon to find the money necessary for improving the recreation-room. After all, there was only one university settlement in the city, and to equip it as it deserved to be quipped meant, comparatively speaking, a trilling effort. One should remember, too, that the advantage to the community of this settlement was bi-latcral.

It was advantageous to hose oh whose behalf it was founded, and also, ho thoroughly believed, to thcee who took part the work. Social science was now a recognised form of study. In many places it could now earn a university diploma. It provided very definite object of study. Of course, there rould be.

no uniform or fixed curriculum for this branch of study and research. The work Juust vary according to the different neede of. jho district or according to a hundred changing meal conditions. But the study of social science, in whatever. part of the country it was undertaken, was constructive and original in the work involved.

That, in his opinion, should be a real attnclion to those who desired to take up something in which the process of learning was at the same moment a process of teaching and a process of accomplishment. Not an Amateur There was a tendency to look upon settlement work as a praisewor'hy effort of well-disposed amateurs. That wa3 a misconception. There was a real professional outlook" upon these problems, and a thoroughly professional manner in which they could be handled. Nobody could deal with such typbleuis rday today without realising this central fact, and although entlhusiasm and self-sacrifice provided the whole ir.nv-ement, the organisation of the work and the metrod of its dirtceion were based upon close study -and well-estaTjiished experience.

There was another misconception. It was often said that work in, a settlement of this kind could only bq done by leisured people with plenty ot time at their disposal. The work of the actual resident was. of course the most continuous and provided the broadest urvey of the problems. To that extent, no doubt, it was the moat valuable.

But one evening a week regularly devoted to the work could achieve iiuch. A man could specialise In somo subject and prove of great value to Ihc settlement. And, after all, the close, sympathetic, and penetrating study of humanity must be good for the young student, whatever was going to bo tho nature of his profession hereafter. What could-be better for the young man who was going to. bo an chemist, riianager.

or teacher than that he: should see and understand tho realities of- life if Ho would get no better opportunity of doing so than that of honest work at a university settlement. How pood forJiim that in his young and impressionable years he should understand the harsh realities of Ancoats. Ancoats presented a branch of knowledge and wisdom in which all would do well to Some people said that university settlements were out of dnte. He did not think so. Thev represented a kind of enterprise that could not be replaced by great waves of public opinion or by large political or social movements.

Such things took years to mature any and often enough still longer to emerge as concrete facts. Meanwhile manv problems must be left unserved. To his mind a settlement provided quiet and a constant agency for good. The play of personality in our midst was still potent. The education imparted by friendly and disinterested intercourse would always reap its reward, for it would always meet apubliowant, and therefore would always deserve well of the community, THEATRICAL GALA FOll PRESS CilARITim Tiio programme for tho theatrical gala performance whtoh is to lie given at tho Prince's Theatre, Manchester, next Monday evening for press charities tho Newspaper Press Fund and tho Widows and Orphans Fund of' the National Union of Journalists is now almost complete.

Thanks to the co-operation of the resident managers of all the Manchester theatres and of the artists who by the end of this week will have begun to arrive in Manchester for the Christmas season, it will be a programme of quite unusual interest. Monday cvoningfs audience will see all the best of the Christinas attractions before anyone else and will see' them altogether. Offers of help, too, have cgmo from farther afield than the Manchester-district, and among others who conic from a distance to play their part will bo Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who has promises to bo in Manchester that night though it means coining from Bath. The other artists on the programme will include Beryl Beresford.

Queen and Le 'Brun, Viola Comntou. Henry. Groker, Charles Collier, Bert Errol, Cora uomn, soaun uienyme, xroromy vtarrt, ueorge Gregory. Arthur Guilford, Katrina and Joan, the 'Three Sisters Kershaw, Harry Liston, Jack Lennol, Barry Lupino, Alan McKelvin, Cath-reen Moreland (Countess of Westmoreland), Vera Bridge Peters, Mme. Dorothy Ralston, Benee Reed, Ida Sacar, Angus Cecil Sherwood.

H. Worrall Thompson, Ivor Vinter, ana carry waisn. At the banquet on behalf of the same fund, to be held next Saturday at the Midland Hotel, Lord Derby will be in the chair, and the chief guest will be. Lord Birkenhead. 1 Exhibition of their Exclusive Xmas Gifts sdcios" CIGARS CONNOISSEURS smoke' they Appreciate their Choice Flavour and Exquisite Aroma.

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THE CHBISTMAS DOLL SHOW. A MANCHESTER FUND'S VARIED! The lady Mayoress (Miss A. M. Jackson) specially commended it ae "a fairy godmother WORK. to th little Cinderellas of this city." It J3ffogniaed that to these the city owed not The biggest of the reception-rooms SjiV-'polz food and clothes, hut had a duty to give Manchester Town Hall is filled this week with-'Pni joy and pleasure.

She commended 'also a great of all kinds of toy, and dolls KfflehTha These are gifts to the "Evening Cazcpicte--gent-some them away to the seaside. Cinderella Club, which was founded to bring-'. some measure of good cheer at, Christmas-time into the less fortunate homes 'of the city. The toys and dolls are for sale. Each purchase and each admission will swell the fund, whieb'ihe club collects.

7 Very many of tbe gifts are evidence of generous handwork; they have been dressed in shops and homes especially for the exhibition, and a casual walk round tne. nail snows sucn a body of George Helbing (24), of Oak Meadows, variety, of little waxen people, wild animals," Hayes Lane, Aldtxley Edge, who had been and tame ardrnals that if there was ever a. want employed as a labourer by Mr. Arthur Nor-in the young visitor's mind it would surely, "baiyV Traffc Fa. Helbirig find, its heart's desire, here.

Without a word. tUedat the; Mahester Eoral Infirmiry on these cherry lips, these porcelain eyes tetanwg attributable to" a gunshot appeal to be taken home, to be "restored from wdtrnd: in the! right thigb. publio life into the warm cherishing of bV Mi Norb'ttry eaidthat on the morning 'of tha winter ajid lions and bears with a'tfrU sitting on barrow pleasing, self-sacrifice will remain to a ia the mixing-rocn bleeding from a I smail cage, if it" be "a truly domestic In the.1 wonnd in the Feg. He said' he had been; open-Lord parlour there is a July and a marionette 4H'ijBt belong:" to the. day.

Ponca is" in jpcfoan, andrthewitneas, who stated, in fact," that never marionettes havea properstage and curtain; seeniit- Me believed, howrihat it 'for" their aniacs.t -There farm forctwo bri threo doll's, hojise witii garden' a.ta-:tcmt'ffeadZh:m ti proper steps lit by electric light, and aback After having his woundSdresfed in that opens to let' tha owner toi': uteriosev Heltving was" rembveif'tb" This bright display, was opened by the Lady. mary. on the order of a doctor. Maa-oreBB Of Manchester, assisted by the Mayor Mr. Suradge returned verdict of accidental of Balford, The Mayor of dtaVtu'-f -J.